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PUMA: Layer-Pruned Language Model for Efficient Unified Multimodal Retrieval with Modality-Adaptive Learning

arXiv:2507.08064v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As multimedia content expands, the demand for unified multimodal retrieval (UMR) in real-world applications increases. Recent work leverages m

2 Jun 2026

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SkillPager: Query-Adaptive Intra-Skill Navigation via Semantic Node Retrieval

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arXiv:2606.00822v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Skill-based LLM agents increasingly rely on long procedural documents, but full-document prompting wastes tokens and dilutes information critical to e

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2 Jun 2026

Turing Patterns for Multimedia: Reaction-Diffusion Multi-Modal Fusion for Language-Guided Video Moment Retrieval

arXiv:2606.01615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video-language models are pivotal for tasks such as moment retrieval and highlight detection, yet they often struggle to capture the dynamic, non-linear

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2 Jun 2026

OmniMem: Scalable and Adaptive Memory Retrieval for Long Video Generation

arXiv:2605.30519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive (AR) video generation extends videos by producing latent chunks sequentially, but scaling to long videos requires repeated access to a gr

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1 Jun 2026

BullingerDB: A Dataset for Handwritten Text Recognition and Writer Retrieval

arXiv:2605.30235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present BullingerDB, a large-scale benchmark dataset for historical document analysis based on the correspondence of Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575).

CORE-T: COherent REtrieval of Tables for Text-to-SQL

arXiv:2601.13111v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Realistic text-to-SQL workflows often require joining multiple tables. As a result, accurately retrieving the relevant set of tables becomes a

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Fewer Steps, Better Performance: Efficient Cross-Modal Clip Trimming for Video Moment Retrieval Using Language

arXiv:2605.29793v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Given an untrimmed video and a sentence query, video moment retrieval using language (VMR) aims to locate a target query-relevant moment. Since the untr

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GRASP: Plan-Guided Graph Retrieval with Adaptive Fusion and Reranking on Semi-Structured Knowledge Bases

arXiv:2605.30237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semi-structured knowledge bases (SKBs) embed textual documents in a typed graph of entities and relations, and underpin applications such as product s

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Applications

When Does Persona Prompting Actually Help? A Retrieval and Metric Analysis of Expert Role Injection in LLMs

arXiv:2605.29420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Persona prompting is widely used to steer large language models, yet its practical value remains unclear. Prior work often evaluates persona prompting u

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ConRAG: Consensus-Driven Multi-View Retrieval for Multi-Hop Question Answering

arXiv:2605.28093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing large language models (LLMs) on multi-hop question answering (QA)

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FD-RAG: Federated Dual-System Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2605.27432v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a paradigm for grounding large language models in external knowledge, yet most existing RAG system

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Graph-of-Skills: Dependency-Aware Structural Retrieval for Massive Agent Skills

arXiv:2604.05333v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern LLM agents increasingly rely on reusable skills, and as they interact with personal applications, web browsers, and other interfaces, skill l

Retrieval, Reward, and Training Protocols: What Matters in Training Search Agents?

arXiv:2605.27881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search agents powered by large language models can autonomously decompose queries, retrieve information, and synthesize answers through multi-step reaso

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Simorgh at SemEval-2026 task 7: Region-Aware Hybrid Retrieval for Low-Resource Cultural Reasoning in Multilingual Question Answering

arXiv:2605.27636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate excellent capabilities and performance for general reasoning tasks within the general public domain, t

Detecting Is Not Resolving: The Monitoring Control Gap in Retrieval Augmented LLMs

arXiv:2605.27157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented LLMs are deployed for tasks where evidence quality determines action safety, yet evaluation protocols assume that single-turn robust

27 May 2026

From Norms to Indicators (N2I-RAG): An Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for Legal Indicator Computation

arXiv:2605.26926v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computing legal indicators from normative texts is a key task in legal monitoring and policy evaluation, but presents significant challenges due to the

27 May 2026

Resolving Ambiguity in Composed Image Retrieval via Calibrated Interaction

arXiv:2605.24634v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Composed image retrieval (CIR) searches a corpus with a reference image and a text describing how to modify it. Despite rapid progress from triplet-

27 May 2026

Hardware

AgentIR: A Workload-Adaptive Cascade Retrieval Substrate for Long-Term Conversational Memory

arXiv:2605.25092v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term conversational memory is a retrieval workload classical IR was not built for: the index grows during the query stream, query types shift int

hardwarearxiv-cs-cl

26 May 2026

WhenLoss: Diagnosing Write and Retrieval Bottlenecks in Long-Context Memory Systems

arXiv:2605.24579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context memory systems often fail under fixed budgets, but end-to-end evaluation does not reveal whether evidence was discarded during compression

26 May 2026

Direct content-based retrieval from music scores images

arXiv:2605.22255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The digitization of musical scores plays a crucial role in their preservation and accessibility, yet information retrieval still depends mainly on metad

22 May 2026

Agents

SpecHop: Continuous Speculation for Accelerating Multi-Hop Retrieval Agents

arXiv:2605.21965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models increasingly use external tools such as web search and document retrieval to solve information-intensive tasks. However, multi-hop

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22 May 2026

ContextRAG: Extraction-Free Hierarchical Graph Construction for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2605.19735v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph-structured retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems can improve answer quality on multi-hop questions, but many current systems rely on larg

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20 May 2026

HPC-LLM: Practical Domain Adaptation and Retrieval-Augmented Generation for HPC Support

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2605.16347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern scientific research increasingly depends on High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures, yet many researchers face significant operational b

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RAGA: Reading-And-Graph-building-Agent for Autonomous Knowledge Graph Construction and Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2605.17072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing LLM-driven knowledge graph (KG) construction methods predominantly employ stateless batch processing pipelines, exhibiting structural deficienc

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Tutorials

Surface-Form Neural Sparse Retrieval: Robust Fuzzy Matching for Industrial Music Search

arXiv:2605.17762v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Music search at the scale of Amazon Music presents a unique challenge: queries frequently deviate from indexed metadata due to misspellings, transpositi

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Temporal Decay of Co-Citation Predictability: A 20-Year Statute Retrieval Benchmark from 396M Ukrainian Court Citations

arXiv:2605.17639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Co-citation structure is widely assumed to provide stable retrieval signal in legal information systems. We test this assumption longitudinally by const

TIGER-FG: Text-Guided Implicit Fine-Grained Grounding for E-commerce Retrieval

arXiv:2605.18434v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: E-commerce image search often takes a cropped image as the query, while each candidate is represented by full item images and structured text. This im

Towards Sustainable Growth: A Multi-Value-Aware Retrieval Framework for E-Commerce Search

arXiv:2605.17994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: New item growth is critical for maintaining a healthy ecosystem in large-scale e-commerce platforms. However, existing systems tend to prioritize pres

Trustworthiness in Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems: A Survey

arXiv:2409.10102v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has quickly grown into a pivotal paradigm in the development of Large Language Models (LLMs). Although ex

Deepchecks: Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

arXiv:2605.14488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) augmented with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques are revolutionizing applications across multiple domains, su

15 May 2026

Multi-proposal Collaboration and Multi-task Training for Weakly-supervised Video Moment Retrieval

arXiv:2605.14838v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study focuses on weakly-supervised Video Moment Retrieval (VMR), aiming to identify a moment semantically similar to the given query within an untr

15 May 2026

When Evidence Conflicts: Uncertainty and Order Effects in Retrieval-Augmented Biomedical Question Answering

arXiv:2605.14115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biomedical retrieval-augmented large language models (LLMs) often face evidence that is incomplete, misleading, or internally contradictory, yet evaluat

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15 May 2026

Domain Adaptation of Large Language Models for Polymer-Composite Additive Manufacturing Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2605.12516v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose large language models (LLMs) often struggle to generate reliable responses in specialized engineering domains due to limited domain gr

14 May 2026

Caraman at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Three-Stage Multi-Turn Retrieval with Query Rewriting, Hybrid Search, and Cross-Encoder Reranking

arXiv:2605.12028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We describe our system for SemEval-2026 Task 8 (MTRAGEval), participating in Task A (Retrieval) across four English-language domains. Our approach emplo

13 May 2026

ClinicalBench: Stress-Testing Assertion-Aware Retrieval for Cross-Admission Clinical QA on MIMIC-IV

arXiv:2605.11143v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning benchmarks measure clinical performance on clean inputs. We evaluate the step before reasoning: retrieval over real EHR notes, where negation,

13 May 2026

Attention Itself Could Retrieve.RetrieveVGGT: Training-Free Long Context Streaming 3D Reconstruction via Query-Key Similarity Retrieval

arXiv:2605.09644v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) advances 3D reconstruction via scalable Transformer architecture, but the quadratic complexity of global att

Byte-Exact Deduplication in Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Three-Regime Empirical Analysis Across Public Benchmarks

arXiv:2605.09611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This preprint presents an empirical analysis of byte-exact chunk-level deduplication in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines. We measure conte

Loom: Hybrid Retrieval-Scoring Outfit Recommendation with Semantic Material Compatibility and Occasion-Aware Embedding Priors

arXiv:2605.09830v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Loom, an outfit recommendation system that combines neural embedding retrieval with structured domain scoring to generate complete, coheren

Retrieval Mechanisms Surpass Long-Context Scaling in Time Series Forecasting

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2605.08217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) have borrowed the long context paradigm from natural language processing under the premise that feeding more histo

VLADriver-RAG: Retrieval-Augmented Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2605.08133v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving, yet their reliance on implicit parametric

Towards Highly-Constrained Human Motion Generation with Retrieval-Guided Diffusion Noise Optimization

arXiv:2605.08054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating human motion that satisfies customized zero-shot goal functions, enabling applications such as controllable character animation and behavior

11 May 2026

Geometric Entropy and Retrieval Phase Transitions in Continuous Thermal Dense Associative Memory

arXiv:2604.07401v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the thermodynamic memory capacity of modern Hopfield networks (Dense Associative Memory models) with continuous states under geometri

researcharxiv-cs-lg

7 May 2026

Sharp Capacity Thresholds in Linear Associative Memory: From Winner-Take-All to Listwise Retrieval

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2605.05189v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How many key-value associations can a dimes d linear memory store? We show that the answer depends not only on the d^2 degrees of freedom in the memor

7 May 2026

Storage Is Not Memory: A Retrieval-Centered Architecture for Agent Recall

arXiv:2605.04897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Extraction at ingestion is the wrong primitive for agent memory: content discarded before the query is known cannot be recovered at retrieval time. We p

7 May 2026

Tutorials

AlbumFill: Album-Guided Reasoning and Retrieval for Personalized Image Completion

arXiv:2605.02892v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized image completion aims to restore occluded regions in personal photos while preserving identity and appearance. Existing methods either rely

tutorialsarxiv-cs-cv

5 May 2026

Tutorials

Rethinking Electro-Optical Vision Foundation Models for Remote Sensing Retrieval: A Controlled Comparison with Generalist VFM

arXiv:2605.02283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision foundation models have attracted significant attention for their ability to leverage large-scale unlabeled visual data. This advantage is particu

tutorialsarxiv-cs-cv

5 May 2026

Combating Visual Neglect and Semantic Drift in Large Multimodal Models for Enhanced Cross-Modal Retrieval

arXiv:2604.25273v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite significant progress in Unified Multimodal Retrieval (UMR) powered by Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), existing embedding methods primarily focus

29 Apr 2026

INHerit-SG: Incremental Hierarchical Semantic Scene Graphs with RAG-Style Retrieval